Csurgó, Bernadett - Hindley, Clare - Smith, Melanie Kay (2019) Imagined Idylls and Nostalgic Idealization: Gastronomic Tourism in Rural Hungary
Institute for Sociology
Journal of Gastronomy and Tourism
Publication Awards 2025
Authors of the best publications of our institutes are acknowledged each year. On 5 March, 2025, Zsolt Boda, General Director, handed out the awards at the annual meeting of the Centre for Social Sciences, followed by brief presentations of the research findings.
Announcement
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
Featured news
Publication: Tibor Valuch's new article
Institute for Political Science
Publication: Gergő Medve-Bálint's new article in Review of International Political Economy
Institute for Political Science
Gergő Medve-Bálint and his co-author, Vera Šćepanović (Leiden University) has recently published an open access article on “EU funds, state capacity and the development of transnational industrial policies in Europe’s Eastern periphery”, in Review of International Political Economy.
Publication: Zsófia Papp's new article in European Union Politics
Institute for Political Science
Zsófia Papp recently published a new article entitled "Votes, money can buy. The conditional effect of EU Structural Funds on government MPs’ electoral performance" in European Union Politics.
Judit Takács, Research Chair of the Institute received the title Doctor of the Academy
Institute for Sociology
Congratulations!
Our researchers at the Annual Conference of POLTEXT in Tokyo, Japan
Institute for Political Science
The 3rd Annual Conference of the POLTEXT international text mining community was held on September 13-15 at Waseda University in Tokyo. Organized by Kohei Watanabe, Lisa Lechner and Miklós Sebők (the principal investigator of the POLTEXT project at the Centre of Social Sciences, Budapest) the event featured tutorials and presentations by three other researchers of CSS: Márton Bene, Zoltán Kacsuk and Martina Szabó. For more information see poltextconference.org and poltext.tk.mta.hu.
Márta Kiss, Katalin Rácz (2019): Factors and Policy Measures Influencing Local Economic Development
Give Kids a Chance
Márta Kiss, Katalin Rácz (2019): The Role of Local Governments in the Development of the Local Economy: International Findings in Light of Hungarian Case Studies.
Give Kids a Chance
New Call for Applications: International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities’ Survey Data Network Training School
Centre for Social Sciences
Our researchers at ECPR General Conference in Wrocław, Poland
Institute for Political Science
Many of our researchers attended at ECPR General Conference held in Wrocław, Poland from 3 to 7 September
Our results
The populist voter trap: why regime change may not end populism
Polarizing transition? New paper by István Benedek
March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.
Trust in science, knowledge and risk perception as predictors of COVID-19 vaccination
Caring communities in senior care. New paper by Noémi Katona and Dóra Gábriel
Recently published: Dorottya Szikra et al: How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Identity, Belonging, and the Law. Edited by András László Pap et al.
New publication. We’re not heroes, we’re just doing our job: analysis of social workers’ discourses about their profession in online communities
New paper: Compromising Priests and Nuns Under State Socialism
Illiberal Social Policy in Europe. New paper by Dorottya Szikra
9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)